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Black History Month: The People of The Harlem Renaissance |
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W.E.B. DuBois:W. E. B. DuBois to Booker T. Washington, September 24, 1895. Letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Charles Young (01/21/1916) Dr. W. E. B. DuBois [advertisement] [from newspaper] Letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Charles Young (06/28/1917) Prof. W.E.B. DuBois "The Negro Problem" [advertisement] [from newspaper]
Marcus Garvey:Marcus Garvey and the Garvey Militia, Harlem, 1924 / Van DerZee, NYC. [Marcus Garvey, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in uniform] Convention address by Hon. Marcus Garvey delivering constitution for Negro rights Plead for Marcus Garvey [from newspaper] (07/28/1923) Marcus Garvey to Speak at Emery Auditorium [from newspaper] (04/28/1923) Marcus Garvey et. al to Hold Meet in Gotham [from newspaper] (02/28/1920)
Mary White Ovington:[Mary White Ovington, half-length portrait, facing front]
Zora Neale Hurston:[Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French, and Gabriel Brown, Eatonville, Florida] [Zora Neale Hurston and an unidentified man probably at a recording site, Belle Glade, Florida] [Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston] [Zora Neale Hurston. Eatonville, Florida, 1935]. The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
Langston Hughes:[Langston Hughes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / photo by James L. Allen. [Langston Hughes, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, with right hand under chin] Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941. Langston Hughes Was Born (America's Story) Meet Amazing Americans: Langston Hughes (America's Story) Langston Hughes Requests Loan for Tuition Langston Hughes Requests NAACP Assistance
Claude McKay:[Claude McKay, half-length portrait, facing right] [Claude McKay, 1889-1948, head and shoulders, facing front] Claude McRay [sic] and Baroness Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Walter White:[Walter White, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing cap and gown] [Walter White, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, sitting in front of open book] Letter from Walter F. White to George Myers (10/28/1919) Letter from [Walter White] to George Myers (07/07/1922) Letter from Walter White to George Myers (12/03/1925) Walter White Brings Live Message Here [from newspaper]
William H. Johnson:Holcha & Willie / William H. Johnson. Self-portrait / W. H. Johnson. Bazaars behind Oslo Church / William H. Johnson. Church by lake / William H. Johnson. Refugee child / William H. Johnson. William H. Johnson: "Street Musicians"
National Association for the Advancement of Colered People (N.A.A.C.P.):[12th Annual Conference, NAACP, June 1921, Detroit, Mich.] [13th Annual Conference, NAACP, 1922, Newark, N.J.] 20th Annual session of the N.A.A.C.P., 6-26-29, Cleveland, Ohio 23rd Annual Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., Washington, D.C., May 17-22, 1932 NAACP photographs of National, Regional, and State conference activities and delegates "The Negro in Wartime" Pamphlet Robert W. Bagnall, Director of Branches, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Moorfield Storey, president, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People N.A.A.C.P. [from newspaper] (11/13/1915) N.A.A.C.P. [from newspaper] (06/12/1920) NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom 1909-2009
National Urban league:National Urban League Papers. National Interracial Conference, 1928. National Urban League Papers. National Interracial Conference, 1928. Conference of National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes [from newspaper] [African American men working as typesetters] [African American men working at printing presses]
Buildings of Importance:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Other:Countee Cullen to George H. Haynes, December 7, 1926 [Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1884?-1961; full length, seated, facing slightly left] [Aaron Douglas, 1898-, head and shoulders, facing right] [Portrait of James Weldon Johnson] Cayton's weekly., April 19, 1919, Image 3 Cayton's weekly., May 31, 1919, Image 2 The Tulsa star., October 09, 1920, Weekly Mail Edition, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5 New-York tribune., July 03, 1921, Image 39New-York tribune., July 23, 1922, Image 45 James Weldon Johson Was Born (America's Story) Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Was Born (America's Story) Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson Was Born (America's Story) Novelist, Essayist, and Playwright James Baldwin Was Born (America's Story) Leontyne Price Was Born (America's Story) The Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity Other Resources from the InternetWebsites:Art & Culture: The Harlem Renaissance (PBS) The Harlem Renaissance for Kids (PBS) Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community Harlem History from Columbia University
Books:The Harlem Renaissance by Meachen Rau ~ ISBN-10: 0756517273 or ISBN-13: 978-0756517274 ---Ages 8 and up A Song for Harlem: Scraps of Time by Patricia McKissack ~ ISBN-10: 067006209X or ISBN-13: 978-0670062096 ---Ages 8 and up Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Lisa Beringer McKissack and Beringer McKissack ~ ISBN-10: 0756520347 or ISBN-13: 978-0756520342 ---Ages 8 and upThe Harlem Renaissance in American History by Ann Gaines ~ ISBN-10: 0766014584 or ISBN-13: 978-0766014589 ---Ages 10 and up Harlem Renaissance Artists (Artists in Profile) by Denise M. Jordan ~ ISBN-10: 1588106497 or ISBN-13: 978-1588106490 --- Ages 10 and up The Harlem Renaissance: A Celebration of Creativity (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Lucia Raatma ~ ISBN-10: 1567666450 or ISBN-13: 978-1567666458 ---Ages 10 and up Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance by Wendy Hart Beckman ~ ISBN-10: 0766018342 or ISBN-13: 978-0766018341 ---Ages 11 and up Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by P. Stephen Hardy and Sheila Jackson Hardy ~ISBN-10: 051621201X or ISBN-13: 978-0516212012 ---Ages 11 and up Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson ~ ISBN-10: 0471211524 or ISBN-13: 978-0471211525 --- Ages 11 and up The Harlem Renaissance: Profiles in Creativity by Cheryl Willis Hudson ~ ISBN-10: 1582737320 or ISBN-13: 978-1582737324 Lucent Library of Black History - The Harlem Renaissance by Andy Koopmans ~ ISBN-10: 1590187024 or ISBN-13: 978-1590187029 --- Ages 12 and up The Harlem Renaissance (Bloom's Period Studies) by Harold Bloom ~ ISBN-10: 0791076792 or ISBN-13: 978-0791076798 Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Anne Elizabeth Carroll ~ ISBN-10: 0253345839 or ISBN-13: 978-0253345837 Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West by Sharon L. Jones ~ ISBN-10: 0313323267 or ISBN-13: 978-0313323263 A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 by David Krasner ~ ISBN-10: 0312295901 or ISBN-13: 978-0312295905 The Harlem Renaissance (Literature & Thought) by Literature & Thought Series ~ ISBN-10: 0789154552 or ISBN-13: 978-0789154552 W.E.B. DuBois: Civil Rights Activist, Author, Historian (Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers) by Jim Whiting ~ ISBN-10: 1422216187 or ISBN-13: 978-1422216187 ---Ages 10 and up W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Civil Rights (The Library of American Lives and Times) by Ryan P. Randolph ~ ISBN-10: 1404226567 or ISBN-13: 978-1404226562 ---Ages 10 and up W. E. B Du Bois (Up Close) by Tonya Bolden ~ ISBN-10: 0670063029 or ISBN-13: 978-0670063024 ---Ages 11 and up W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis ~ ISBN-10: 0805035680 or ISBN-13: 978-0805035681 W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography by David Levering Lewis ~ ISBN-10: 0805088059 A Man Called Garvey: The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey by Paloma Mohamed and illustrated by Barrington Braithwaite ~ ISBN-10: 0912469404 or ISBN-13: 978-0912469409 ---Ages 8 and up Marcus Garvey: Controversial Champion of Black Pride (African-American Biographies by Anne E. Schraff ~ ISBN-10: 0766021688 or ISBN-13: 978-0766021686 ---Ages 11 and up Marcus Garvey by Suzanne Francis-Brown and illustrated by Jean Jacques Vaysierres ~ ISBN-10: 9766373361 or ISBN-13: 978-9766373368 Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin ~ ISBN-10: 0547006950 or ISBN-13: 978-0547006956 --- Ages 9 and up Zora Neale Hurston: I Have Been in Sorrow's Kitchen (African-American Biographies by Laura Baskes Litwin ~ ISBN-10: 0766025365 or ISBN-13: 978-0766025363 --- Ages 10 and up Zora Neale Hurston: African American Writer (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Deborah Cannarella ~ ISBN-10: 1567666493 or ISBN-13: 978-1567666496 --- Ages 10 and up Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon ~ ISBN-10: 0763658146 or ISBN-13: 978-0763658144 --- Ages 10 and up My People by Langston Hughes and illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr. ~ ISBN-10: 1416935401 or ISBN-13: 978-1416935407 ---Ages 4 and up Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper ~ ISBN-10: 0698116127 or ISBN-13: 978-0698116122 --- Ages 4 and up Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel, Arnold Rampersad, and illustrated by Benny Andrews ~ ISBN-10: 1402718454 or ISBN-13: 978-1402718458 --- Ages 8 and up Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance (Writers and Their Work) by Maurice O. Wallace ~ ISBN-10: 0761425918 or ISBN-13: 978-0761425915 --- Ages 9 and up Li'L Sis and Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life and Paintings of William H. Johnson by Gwen Everett ~ ISBN-10: 1562825933 or ISBN-13: 978-1562825935 --- Grades 2 - 5 William H. Johnson: An American Modern edited by Teresa G. Gionis with contributions by Richard J. Powell, Lowery Stokes Sims, Lislie king-Hammond, and Aaron Bryant ~ ISBN-10: 0295991488 or ISBN-13: 978-0295991481 The NAACP: An Organization Working to End Discrimination (Journey to Freedom: The African American Library) by Andrew Santella ~ ISBN-10: 1567665403 or ISBN-13: 978-1567665406 --- Ages 10 and up Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne ~ ISBN-10: 1419700200 or ISBN-13: 978-1419700200 --- Ages 10 and up A Kid's Guide to African American History: More than 70 Activities (A Kid's Guide series) by Nancy I. Sanders ~ ISBN-10: 1556526539 or ISBN-13: 978-1556526534 --- Ages 7 and up
Videos:Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (2006) from PBS, 60 minutes A Great Day in Harlem (1995) from Homevision, 60 minutes The American Experience - Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (2001) from PBS, 90 minutes Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008) from PBS American Masters & Bay Bottom news, 84 minutes Zora's Roots (2008) from PBS, 60 minutes |
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